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This 5-coloured (and sometimes 7-coloured) gay men pride flag was designed in 2019 by Tumblr user but it wasn’t without controversy.Īccusations that the creator of the flag is transphobic, and that the design was stolen from the sunset lesbian flag, were rampant. Francois Lenoir / ReutersThe best-known, six-stripe version of the rainbow pride flag was established in 1979, and still assigns a meaning to each color: red. Over time, demand grew for a flag that specifically represents gay men. In some groups the purple is changed to black as a sign of mourning by community members who have died of AIDS. Revised aroace flag after some conversation among community members The old flag I made can be found here, but I decided to change it after some criticisms that I received. Production issues involving the availability of certain dye colors led to the removal of pink and turquoise, and indigo was changed to a more common blue color. The (cis, white) gay man has always been at the centre of pride movements, but as people opened their minds to include all LGBTQ+ identities in the movement, the rainbow flag increasingly solidified its position as one that represents the entire LGBTQ+ community. Finally, the 6 colors of the LGBT flag that we all know: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. In its original design, each of the eight stripes had a specific meaning: Originally, each flag was hand sewn and dyed, but as demand grew, they had to shift to mass production.